Integrate 3D content seamlessly into your webpage - the scene is directly written into the HTML markup.
No Plugins needed. Simply include a javascript file.
Free for non-commercial and commercial purposes.

Place 3D data anywhere you like

The 3d context can be created without background or borders. Don't believe it? Just try to move the geometric objects next to this text...

X3DOM (pronounced X-Freedom) is an open-source framework and runtime for 3D graphics on the Web. It can be freely used for non-commercial and commercial purposes, and is dual-licensed under MIT and GPL license.

X3DOM tries to support the ongoing discussion in the Web3D and W3C communities how an integration of HTML5 and declarative 3D content could look like, and it aims to fulfill the current HTML5 specification for declarative 3D content and allows including X3D elements as part of any HTML5 DOM tree.

SVG, canvas, WebGL and X3DOM relation

The goal here is to have a live X3D scene in your HTML DOM, which allows you to manipulate the 3D content by only adding, removing, or changing DOM elements. No specific plugin or plugin interface (like the X3D-specific SAI) is needed. It also supports most of the HTML events (like "onclick") on 3D objects. The whole integration model is still evolving and open for discussion.

We hope to trigger a process similar to how the SVG in HTML5 integration evolved:

Provide a vision and runtime today to experiment with and develop an integration model for declarative 3D in HTML5

Get the discussion in the HTML5 and X3D communites going and evolve the system and integration model

Finally it would be part of the HTML5 standard and supported by every major browser natively

Publications

More architectural and background information can be found in the following X3DOM-related papers (among others), published at the annual ACM Web3D conferences: